Okhotsk Plate

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The Okhotsk Plate is a minor tectonic plate in the northwest Pacific region, underlying parts of northeastern Asia including the Sea of Okhotsk and adjacent areas of Japan and Russia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf minor tectonic plate
tectonic plate
associatedWith Japan Trench
Kuril–Kamchatka Trench
earthquakes in northeastern Japan
seismic activity
volcanism in Kamchatka
volcanism in Kuril Islands
borderedBy Amurian Plate
Eurasian Plate
North American Plate
Pacific Plate
Philippine Sea Plate
Sunda Plate
hasBoundaryType convergent boundary
divergent boundary
subduction zone
transform fault
locatedIn northwest Pacific region
movesRelativeTo Eurasian Plate
North American Plate
Pacific Plate
namedAfter Sea of Okhotsk
overlies upper mantle
partOf Earth lithosphere
regionIncludes Hokkaido
Kamchatka Peninsula
Kuril Islands
Sakhalin Island
studiedIn geodynamics
plate tectonics
seismology
underlies Sea of Okhotsk
parts of Japan
parts of Russia
parts of northeastern Asia


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